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Carlos Motta wins the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize, 2014

Carlos Motta (Colombia) and Nástio Mosquito (Angola) shared the Main Prize of the 3rd edition of the Future Generation Art Prize that was announced by the international jury at the award ceremony in the PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine on Dec 6, 2014. Artists will share the award of $100,000 ($60,000 in cash and $40,000 to be invested in the production of new works). Future Generation Art Prize is the first global art prize for artists up to 35 founded by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 with the aim of acknowledging and giving long-term support to a future generation of artists wherever they live and work. The winners were chosen by the respected international jury consisting of Francesco Bonami – Curator, Director of the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Italy); Jan Fabre – Artist (Belgium); Doris Salcedo – Artist (Colombia);Eckhard Schneider – General Director of the PinchukArtCentre (Ukraine); Bisi Silva – Independent curator, Director for the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Nigeria); Adam Szymczyk – Artistic director of documenta 14 (Poland) and Philip Tinari – Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China). Carlos Motta and Nástio Mosquito, as the Winners of the Main Prize, both will present their solo shows in the PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv in autumn 2015.

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Screening

“Nefandus” at the Rencontres Internationales in Paris, December

LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES À PARIS Du 1er au 7 décembre 2014 à Paris, les Rencontres Internationales créeront pendant 7 jours à la Gaîté lyrique, un espace de découverte et de réflexion entre nouveau cinéma et art contemporain en présence d'invités du monde entier. Nefandus will be screened: at Gaîté Lyrique, on Thursday December 4 - 14.15 PM

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INVITACION MIGRACIONES
Group Exhibition

Migraciones, Galería de Arte del Palacio Municipal, Puebla

Group Exhibition

Salon de belleza in Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom, Secession, Vienna, Oct. 22- Nov. 2

Salón de Belleza in Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom 22 October — 02 November 2014 Utopian Pulse — Flares in the Darkroom is a research exhibition divided into 8 salons, curated by a group of artist-curators and perceived as places for the monstrous birth of new alliances. We understand »Utopia« as an always incomplete alternative, the invocation within the given world of something incompatible with, and hostile to, given condition, an assertion of the unrealized in and against the real. The 7 Salons of Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom taking place from September 10 to November 2 are curated by Christoph Schäfer, Mariam Ghani, Bert Theis, Zanny Begg, AND AND AND, Pedro G. Romero/Máquina P.H., Miguel A. López. Salón de Belleza curated by Miguel A. López. With Carlos Motta, Sandra Monterroso, Giuseppe Campuzano, André Masseno, Sergio Zevallos, Virginia de Medeiros, Jaume Ferrete, Open Barbers (Greygory Vass and Felix Lane).

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Screening

"Nefandus" at Muestra internacional documental de Bogotá, October 19

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Screening and Talk

Marine Hugonnier et Carlos Motta, Jeu de Paume, Paris October 14, 6:30pm

Inventer le possible. Une Vidéothèque éphémère Projections & rencontres avec Marine Hugonnier et Carlos Motta le 14 octobre 2014 18h30 - 21h00
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